The editor welcomes submission of manuscripts for consideration. By submission of a manuscript an author certifies that the work is original and is not being considered simultaneously by another publisher.
Submission of mss
Please send two copies of your manuscript to: Anne Goulding, Department of Information Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leics LE11 3TU, UK [email: a.goulding@lboro.ac.uk]. Authors are encouraged to submit papers in machine-readable form or via email to the journal editor, Anne Goulding. This should be as an unformatted text file on disk together with a printed version. Alternatively, papers may be submitted as typed manuscript, which should be double-spaced and on single sides. Left and right margins should be at least 40mm wide. Two copies of the typescript are required.
Covering letter
Please attach to every submission a letter confirming that all authors have agreed to the submission and that the article is not currently being considered for publication by any other journal.
Format of mss
Manuscripts should be typed on one side of the paper, double-spaced, with ample margins and bear the title of the contribution and the name(s) of the author(s) on a separate sheet of paper. The full postal address/phone/fax/email details of each author plus short biographical notes should also be included. All pages should be numbered. Contributions should normally be between 4000 and 10,000 words in length. They should include an abstract of about 100 words and up to six key words. The abstract should cover the overall purpose or research problem, stated early in the abstract, the methodology used, including the research design, sample, and data collection methods, a concise discussion of a few significant research findings and an overview of the main conclusions of the paper. The journal uses notes where necessary. Historical, documentary or archival sources should be cited in endnotes. Discursive endnotes are also allowed. Endnotes are signalled in the text by superscript numbers. References in both the text and in any endnotes should follow Harvard style. References are cited in the text thus: author, date: page; an alphabetical References section should follow the text (and endnotes if any), using the Harvard system. Titles of journals should not be abbreviated. Sample end references:
Burchfield, Robert (1984) 'Dictionaries New and Old: Who Plagiarizes Whom, Why and When', Encounter 63(1): 10-19.
Chapman, R.W. (1948) Lexicography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cole, J. and Gardner, K. (1979) 'Topic Work with First-year Secondary Pupils', in E. Lunzer and K. Gardner (eds) The Effective Use of Reading, pp. 167-92. London: Heinemann.
Greaves, William (1989) 'Selling English by the Pound', The Times, 24 October, 14.
Watson, L. (1998) 'Information Services: A Mission and a Vision', Ariadne 14: 6-7, URL (consulted June 2006): http:/www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue14/main/
National Statistics Online (2003) Census 2001: neighbourhood statistics, URL (consulted March 2004): http:/neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/Default.asp? sid=false&CE=True&SE=True
Association of Personal Historians (2005) URL (consulted October 2005): http:/www.personalhistorians.org/
Tables
Tables should be typed (double line-spaced) on separate sheets and their position indicated by a marginal note in the text. All tables should have short descriptive captions with footnotes and their source(s) typed below the tables.
Illustrations
All line diagrams and photographs are termed 'Figures' and should be referred to as such in the manuscript. They should be numbered consecutively. Line diagrams should be presented in a form suitable for immediate reproduction (i.e. not requiring redrawing), each on a separate A4 sheet. They should be reproducible to a final printed text area of 115 mm x 185 mm. Photographs should preferably be submitted as clear, glossy, unmounted black and white prints with a good range of contrast. Slides are also acceptable. All figures should have short descriptive captions typed on a separate sheet.
AUTHORS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OBTAINING PERMISSIONS FROM COPYRIGHT HOLDERS FOR REPRODUCING ANY ILLUSTRATIONS, TABLES, FIGURES OR LENGTHY QUOTATIONS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED ELSEWHERE.
Style
Articles must be written in English. Use a clear readable style, avoiding jargon. If technical terms or acronyms must be included, define them when first used. Use non-racist, non-sexist language and plurals rather than he/she.
Spellings
UK or US spellings may be used with '-ize' spellings as given in the Oxford English Dictionary (e.g. organize, recognize).
Punctuation
Use single quotation marks with double quotes inside single quotes. Dates should be presented in the form 1 May 1998. Do not use points in abbreviations, contractions or acronyms (e.g. AD, USA, Dr, PhD)
Disks
On acceptance of your manuscript for publication, you will be asked to supply a diskette (preferably PC-compatible) or an attachment via email of the final version.
Proofs and Offprints
Authors will receive proofs of their articles and be asked to send corrections to the editor within 2 weeks. They will receive a complimentary copy of the journal and 25 offprints of their article. Reviewers receive 5 offprints.
Books for review and manuscripts of reviews
Send to Reviews Editor: Dave Muddiman, Book Reviews Editor, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science c/o 3, Sandy Walk, Bramhope, Leeds, LS16 9DW, United Kingdom. [email: jolisreviews@muddimanmiles.demon.co.uk]
English Language Editing Services: Please click here for information on professional English language editing services recommended by SAGE.
If you wish your article to be freely available online immediately upon publication (as some funding bodies now require), you can opt for it to be included in SAGE Open subject to payment of a publication fee. Manuscript submission and refereeing procedure is unchanged. On acceptance of your article, you will be asked to let SAGE know directly if you are choosing SAGE Open. For further information, please
visit http://www.uk.sagepub.com/sageopen.sp
